LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

Mini-budget

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech; Parliamentary debate

TX Date

8 Jun 1978

Year of production

1978

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Duration

00:03:10

Description

Vivian White reports on Chancellor Denis Healey’s mini-budget. Includes speech by shadow Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Howe in the Commons; interviews with John Pardoe, Liberal economic spokesman claiming Chancellor is now implementing ideas they suggested and which he had previously said were impossible; and with Denis Healey on why he chose to put up National Insurance contributions and possible future tax cuts.

Contributors

Geoffrey Howe; John Pardoe; Vivian White; Denis Healey

Keywords

Politics; Industry; Taxation; Economics; Monetary policy; Unemployment; National budgets; Public expenditure; Denis Healey

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